# Intel gives his official stand on the release of 3nm process CPUs

URL: https://technosports.co.in/intel-3nm-process-node-is-on-time/  
Published: 2023-02-25  
Updated: 2023-02-25  
Author: Nivedita Bangari

Pat Gelsinger, Intel’s CEO, addressed rumours this week that the CPU giant was delaying products made using the company’s own Intel 3 and TSMC’s N3 (3nm-class) fabrication technologies. The CEO reiterated that all 3nm projects announced thus far would be released in 2024.

## Intel has revealed three products that will be manufactured using 3nm class manufacturing technologies

Internally, the company plans to manufacture its datacenter-focused Granite Rapids and Sierra Forest processors on the Intel 3 node. This fabrication process is essentially a refined version of Intel 4, but with higher drive currents, lower via resistance, and denser high-performance libraries. All of these characteristics are especially advantageous for datacenter-class processors, though reduced via resistance should be beneficial for mobile CPUs as well.

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## Intel has only revealed two products that will be manufactured on its 3nm-class node internally.

Things get a little more complicated with external 3nm projects. According to a slide that Intel has shown several times, Intel is set to use TSMC’s N3 for a graphics tile of its client processors codenamed Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake due in 2023 and 2024.

According to a market research firm, Intel decided to postpone production of Meteor Lake’s graphics tile on TSMC’s N3 process in August 2022. Intel did not comment on any specific 3nm-based projects at the time, but did state that Meteor Lake would be available in 2023.

The company now claims that its Arrow Lake product, which consists of a compute tile produced on Intel’s 20A (2nm-class) node and a graphics tile produced on TSMC’s N3E, is on schedule for 2024. Given that TSMC will have gained extensive experience with its 3nm-class process technologies by the time Arrow Lake CPUs are released, it is unlikely that Intel will decide to delay Arrow Lake due to issues with TSMC’s N3/N3E.

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